JUNE 2, 2018 GONE TO THE BIRDS. Lessons from the Divine Ornithologist 1 WE WORSHIP PAGE 6 WE WORSHIP 2 PAGE 9

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1 JUNE 2, 2018 GONE TO THE BIRDS Lessons from the Divine Ornithologist 1 WE WORSHIP PAGE 6 WE WORSHIP 2 PAGE 9

2 WHO WE ARE WELCOME to Pioneer To all who have come, welcome to Pioneer. Summertime is here! With Memorial Day behind us, we welcome the warmer weather and all the joys it brings. Psalm 113:3 says, "From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised." On this Sabbath let us take the time to rest, reset, and relax as we join together in worshiping our Creator. May you be blessed by this time with Him. PIONEER MEMORIAL CHURCH 8655 UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD, BERRIEN SPRINGS, MI OFFICE HOURS Monday Thursday (8 to 5) Friday (8 to 12) PHONE FAX LIVE STREAMING Sabbath 1 1:45 AM ONLINE RADIO WAUS 90.7 FM Sabbath 1 1:30 AM CONNECT CARD Scan this code to receive this week's Connect Card. FIND A SABBATH SCHOOL 2 PIONEER MEMORIAL CHURCH

3 CONTENTS FIND IT HERE CONNECT GROW SERVE GO 4 THE FOURTH WATCH BLOG "Japan: The Son is Rising" 6 WE WORSHIP 9:00 AM Service 8 WE STUDY "End Time Deceptions" 9 WE WORSHIP 2 11:45 AM Service 10 ANNOUNCEMENTS 12 FAMILY FINANCES 13 CONTACTS 14 SABBATH SCHOOL DIRECTORY JUNE 2,

4 THE FOURTH WATCH BLOG JAPAN: THE FOURTH WATCH BLOG THE SON IS RISING BY DWIGHT K. NELSON It was a first for me, this idea of posting an online daily journal from the frontlines of evangelism ( japanjournal). But I'm glad I did, because even if no one read the journal, the very exercise of recording the acts of the Holy Spirit inspired my own soul. So on this first Sabbath back at Pioneer, let me share a few lines from my next to the last journal entry: "As the Sabbath draws to a close here in my guest room apartment on the Saniku Gakuin campus [201 college students, 70% non-christian]... on the last day of this short but intensive evangelistic series, what an experience this has been for me. And what a blessing to have a small army of prayer partners who have unselfishly devoted extra intercession time to pray for Japan and this college and the advance of the everlasting gospel to this great unreached people group. My reciprocal prayer of gratitude this Sabbath is that God would pour back into your life--in the currency of His Kingdom--a super bundle of blessings for your unselfish ministry! T h a n k you." "Cars and busses from all over Chiba prefecture (prefectures are small state-like governing administrative units throughout Japan) arrived on campus for the ten o'clock worship celebration in the gymnasium (see photo gallery) and the outdoor baptism and lunch and afternoon concert that followed. My friend, Masumi Shimada, the Japan Union Conference president [we grew up together], told me this afternoon that they counted in the morning event in the gym and Granger Hall [the campus church], an overflow livestreaming site for elderly worshipers...." "It was my joy to preach on the second coming of our Lord Jesus, the eleventh and final piece in this campus series.... My translator, one of the pastors in this prefecture, did a masterful job (as did the other four translators who stood up and preached with me through the week). It is 4 PIONEER MEMORIAL CHURCH

5 my opinion that translators are the Spirit-guided preachers who deserve to be remembered long after the visiting foreigner preachers have left the country. Because no matter how well or how poorly the guest preacher does, the communication event is what transpires between the translator and the listeners. So I say, God bless them every one." "One of the reasons it is such a joy to preach the soon coming of Christ is the tonic it provides for my own soul. As Peter expressed it, We have not followed 'cunningly devised fables' (as the KJV renders it) but we have 'the prophetic message completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts' (2 Peter 1:16, 19 NIV). It [always] stirs my soul to recall with the listeners the indicators Jesus gave as harbingers of His return political, ecological, economic, moral, psychological, societal markers that indicate the unraveling of humanity's hold on this planet and the approach of the King of kings and Lord of lords. And for our natural tendency to dismiss these indicators with the aside 'everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation' (2 Peter 3:4) there is the provocative Chris Martenson illustration of geometric progression/compounding we humans tend nearly always to forget ( The last five minutes are what catch you by surprise." "Once again through the decision card we made an invitation to guests and students alike to carefully weigh God's call to follow Christ through baptism. And with the final Amen, the entire convocation stood and moved out of the gym, up the winding road to the campus proper high on that hillside, where the Granger Hall outdoor baptistery was already surrounded by family and friends awaiting the baptisms...." [From the journal entry on Sunday: "Kondo sensei, the campus pastor, handed me a sheet of names when we met this morning with this written report: 'At least 24 non-christian students put a mark on Question 2 (I would like to bury my past and rise up to new life in Jesus through being baptized as He was) on the Thursday morning decision card.... He also notes that at our Friday evening meeting 3 more students indicated they would like to be baptized someday and the Sabbath morning decision cards have yet to be tallied. Plus... five more non-christian students indicated on the decision card they would like to talk with someone about this decision re baptism. So God has abundantly answered our many prayers in guiding these students to their decisions!"] "Whenever you begin one of these evangelistic series, you simply have no idea how the series will proceed and eventually end such is the adventure of preaching. But when it ends... there is a quiet sense of gratitude that steals over you, along with a surrender of it all back to God. For, as Jesus reminded us, the mystery of soul-winning is truly divine: '"This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how"' (Mark 4:26-27). Or as Paul put it, 'I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow' (1 Corinthians 3:6-7 emphasis supplied)." "And that's the way it should always be. 'But only God.' Which is why I thank Him for you, for drawing from your heart the very prayers He needed, in order to do the very work He promised to do and will yet do for His glory alone. Amen." [Sing Doxology here.] JUNE 2,

6 FIRST SERVICE 9:00 AM WE WORSHIP CONNECT GROW SERVE GO Opening Voluntary Introit Allegro Henry Heron Each Little Bird That Sings Larry Visser Call to Worship Rodlie Ortiz Trust in the Lord, and do good; The Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. We wait before the Lord and we keep His way. Let us praise the name of the Lord. Doxology Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow 2 Invocation Dwight K. Nelson Hymn of Praise Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee 12 Congregational Prayer Fare Thee Well, Pastors Worship in Music Children's Story Rodlie Ortiz Spirit of the Living God 672 Sabine Vatel and Sharon Terrell with Royce Snyman His Eye Is on the Sparrow Charles Gabriel With Wings as Eagles Kenneth Logan Scripture Isaiah 40:28-31 NIV Rick and Joan Regester Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. 6 PIONEER MEMORIAL CHURCH

7 Hymn of Preparation There Is a Quiet Place 503 Sermon "Gone to the Birds: Lessons from the Divine Ornithologist 1" Dwight K. Nelson Connect Card Tithes, Offerings PMC Operating Budget Hymn of Commitment I Know Whom I Have Believed 511 Benediction Closing Voluntary The Heavens Declare God's Glory Benedetto Marcello PRESIDING PASTOR: Rodlie Ortiz; ORGANIST: Kenneth Logan MUSICAL SELECTIONS: Marguerite Samuel, soprano; Leslie Samuel, piano MUSIC ALIVE "WINGS AS EAGLES" F rom Isaiah 40:31 come these words: "they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles." Commentator Barnes said, "The eagle rises on the most vigorous wing of any bird, and ascends apparently further toward the sun." Barnes further refers to "an elevation above the world; communion with God." One can hear today's children's offertory as reflecting on aspects of wings, eagles, and environment. In the music, one can hear the quiet murmuring of water imitated, and suddenly overshadowed by the majestic soaring of an eagle high above. One can imagine other elements of nature interacting with the bird's soaring, and its flying on air currents with slight undulations. The music is in its premiere public hearing in worship today. JUNE 2,

8 SABBATH SCHOOL 10:30 AM WE STUDY CONNECT GROW SERVE GO Song Service Scripture Prayer & Welcome Mission Feature Offertory Lesson Study Theme Song Jimmer Mun Revelation 12:7-9 NKJV Zoey Caballero Qaisar Ayaz "Referral for Healing" We Are Singing for the Lord Is Our Light (from South Africa), Christ the Lord Is Risen (from Ghana West Africa) Classes "End Time Deceptions" Make Me a Blessing Make me a blessing; make me a blessing. Out of my life may Jesus shine. Make me a blessing; O Savior, I pray. Make me a blessing; to someone today. "Make Me a Blessing," Ira Bishop Wilson 1924, Renewed 1952 Word Music, LLC; Used by Permission. CCLI License # Benediction Jimmer Mun ORGANIST: Kenneth Logan OFFERTORY: Slavujevic Family 8 PIONEER MEMORIAL CHURCH

9 WE WORSHIP 2 CONNECT GROW SERVE GO SECOND SERVICE 1 1:45 AM As We Begin Allegro Henry Heron Praise Better Is One Day I Give You My Heart Your Grace Still Amazes Me Prayer Rodlie Ortiz Fare Thee Well, Pastors Sabine Vatel and Sharon Terrell with Royce Snyman Children's Story With Wings as Eagles Kenneth Logan Worship in Music His Eye Is on the Sparrow Charles Gabriel Sermon "Gone to the Birds: Lessons from the Divine Ornithologist 1" Dwight K. Nelson Connect Card Tithes & Offerings I Know Whom I Have Believed 511 As We Depart The Heavens Declare God's Glory Benedetto Marcello WORSHIP COORDINATOR: José Bourget; ORGAN: Kenneth Logan PRAISE LEADER: Sinegugu Katenga; VOCALS: Chad Angasan, Ivana Ticar, Kenric Rimoni PIANO: Joshua Goines; BASS GUITAR: Lorian Guillaume; ACOUSTIC GUITAR: Randall Ulangca MUSICAL SELECTIONS: Marguerite Samuel, soprano; Leslie Samuel, piano JUNE 2,

10 ANNOUNCEMENTS SUBMIT bulletin announcements by visiting our form online at Requests must be received Monday by 5:00 PM for consideration. NEXT WEEK'S OFFERING World Budget PIONEER PULPIT DWIGHT K. NELSON "Gone to the Birds: Lessons from the Divine Ornithologist" DWIGHT K. NELSON "Gone to the Birds: Lessons from the Divine Ornithologist" 3 FINANCIAL FEATURE PMC OPERATING EXPENSE How amazing that we have a God who has set aside 24 hours so we can worship and rest, so we can be recharged to face another week. And what a blessing to worship together as a congregation! This fellowship with other believers is a refreshing break in the busyness of the week. If you feel blessed week after week by worshiping within the walls of PMC, please consider a gift today toward PMC Operating Expenses and add to your blessings of worship. SUNSET TODAY 9:14 SUNSET NEXT FRIDAY 9:18 Family Vespers TODAY 8:00 PM YOUTH CHAPEL Vespers this evening will be a time of testimonies by graduates and others sharing stories of God's providence. Global Church Member Survey We are pleased our congregation was randomly selected to participate in an online global church member survey. An explanatory from the pastor with a web link to the survey was sent this week to all Pioneer members with an address on file at the church. If you did not receive that , please call Claudia Sowler ( ) on Monday numerous unable to deliver s have been returned to the office for address correction. If you would like to participate in this survey, you may go to Please submit your survey responses by June 7. Thank you. Adventist Seniors Monthly Meeting JUNE 10 1:00 PM VILLAGE CHURCH A haystack meal will be provided cost $5.00/person. There will not be a potluck meal, so do not bring any food items. All seniors, members or not, are invited to come fellowship with us. 10 PIONEER MEMORIAL CHURCH

11 Andrews University Health and Wellness Andrews University Health and Wellness invites you to take advantage of our state-of-the-art 3-D Massage Chair, figure out your real body age and body composition with our full body sensor, and discover various ways to become A healthier U! Visit: wellness for more information and to schedule appointments! Contact wellness@andrews.edu. Berrien Springs 5K Color Run JUNE 3 7:00 AM Multicultural Ministries Department of the Lake Union Conference and ASAP Ministries are sponsoring as a fundraising project a 5K COLOR RUN that will take place on Sunday, June 3, at 7:00 AM on the Andrews campus. A special Color Run t-shirt will be provided for all those who register by May 24. Register online at Farewell Picnic for Pastors Sharon & Sabine TODAY 1:30 PM Church family you are invited to a planned potluck lunch in the PMC Commons. Pioneer will provide dessert, drinks, plates, and eating utensils. To ensure a wonderfully memorable experience for everyone, please bring the following menu items. A-H Bring baked beans for 25 people, and a vegetable relish tray for 25 people. I-P Bring salad for 25 people, salad dressing if needed, and a large bag of chips. Q-Z Bring sandwiches for 25 people and a watermelon. We GROW Better Together We're pressing pause for the Summer but it's not too early to start planning what GROW Group you might want to lead for the Fall Semester between September 30 to December 9, 2018! Register your group at org/grow and help us build an intergenerational community where people can grow together in friendship with God and each other. Here are some ideas for groups: Happily Single, Pickleball, Baking Desserts, Women's Prayer Studies, Dads and Prayer. What's your idea? For more information, please contact Gracie Gaytan or Pastor Sabine Vatel at growgroups@pmchurch.org or JUNE 2,

12 As of April 30, 2018 Includes April online giving OPERATING FUND LINE 2 IN YOUR TITHE ENVELOPE GOAL TO-DATE RECEIVED TO-DATE RECEIVED TO-DATE , , ,213 CHRISTIAN EDUCATION LINE 3 IN YOUR TITHE ENVELOPE GOAL TO-DATE RECEIVED TO-DATE RECEIVED TO-DATE ,283 55,674 55,366 MASTER PLAN OF EVANGELISM LINE 5 IN YOUR TITHE ENVELOPE GOAL TO-DATE RECEIVED TO-DATE RECEIVED TO-DATE ,646 36,788 35, PIONEER MEMORIAL CHURCH

13 CONTACTS PASTORS Chaplain / Pioneer José Bourget bourget@pmchurch.org Discipleship / GROW Groups Sabine Vatel vatel@pmchurch.org Harbor of Hope Taurus Montgomery montgomery@pmchurch.org Lead Chaplain June Price juneprice@andrews.edu Lead Pastor Dwight K. Nelson nelson@pmchurch.org Stewardship Sharon Terrell terrell@pmchurch.org This Generation Evangelism Rodlie Ortiz ortiz@pmchurch.org Youth Ministries Ben Martin martin@pmchurch.org STAFF Admin. Assistant Lailane Legoh legoh@pmchurch.org Admin. Assistant / Clerk Gracie Gaytan clerk@pmchurch.org Receptionist Jackie Bikichky bikichky@pmchurch.org Assistant Media Director Gaddiel Zelaya Martínez zelaya@pmchurch.org Assistant Treasurer JoAnn Siagian siagian@pmchurch.org Executive Assistant Claudia Sowler sowler@pmchurch.org Graphic Designer Brittany Doyle bulletin@pmchurch.org Maintenance Larry White white@pmchurch.org Media Ministries Richard Parke parke@pmchurch.org Music Kenneth Logan logan@pmchurch.org JUNE 2,

14 SABBATH SCHOOL DIRECTORY Youth Chapel Balcony ADULT Group Group 2 (Portuguese/Brazilian) Group 3 Group 4 (Yugoslavian) Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 (Spanish) Group 10 Group 11 (Balcony) Group 12 (French) Conference Room Something In Common Young Adults SDA Beliefs Church Offices Platform Lobby Board Room Kitchen 2 Main Level KEY 25 Commons Welcome Centers Elevators Restrooms Children s Activities & Lending Library Music Room Coats Upper Level CHILDREN Birth - 18 months months 3 yr. olds 4 yr. olds 5 yr. olds 6 yr. old - 1st grade 2nd / 3rd grade 4th grade 5th / 6th grade Earliteen Youth Lower Level PIONEER MEMORIAL CHURCH

15 JN ANDREWS BLVD Andrews University Campus Map DAIRY/FARM ST JOSEPH RIVER TH PATHFINDER LANE LEMON CREEK IPA SUH DH PATH BURM UT W CIRCLE DR W CAMPUS CIRCLE DR AG TRANS W CAMPUS CIRCLE DR MEIER WWTP POWR HAR PS FARM OVAL SH UNIVERSITY BLVD DAIRY RD MSH HML BEAVER POINT LH FHH E CAMPUS CIRCLE DR ADC CC 30 BUL Park BGYM IS NH JGYM ARCH BH AD PMC BKS Park Park SEM HILLCREST ARB PT CUST JWL 32 CSH THE GROVE 36 PH HYH Park Park E CAMPUS CIRCLE DR E CAMPUS CIRCLE DR TIMBERLAND DR SFTY AH Park INTERNATIONAL CT INTERNATIONAL CT WALNUT COURT GARLAND B E A B C D MAPLEWOOD A C D F E G F H G BEECHWOOD AA AV RMES GROVE AVE GARLAND AVE MED HORN NTN UNIVERSITY BLVD HPAC Park W CAMPUS CIRCLE DR US 31 IMC 35 AAP UNIVERSITY BLVD GH COLLEGE AVE GRIGGS AVE LUC ANDREWS AIRPARK 4 TH STREET GRIGGS AVE Park Parking passes are required. Please pick up your free visitor parking pass at the Office of Campus Safety. COLLEGIATE 28 H&M (Hispanic Religion Amphitheater) People on the Move (PMC) University Sabbath School (Dining Services) Compass Sabbath School (Buller Religion Dept.) SEMINARY 32 N108 (Collegiate) N110 N120 (New Life Church Choir) N150 N211 (Small Group) N235 N310 (Russian) AU Main Lounge Faculty Lounge Back to Basics Living Word Fellowship Current Events (Nethery Hall-134) Bible Journey (Nethery 143) N335 (Spanish) S340 (Upper Room) JUNE 2,

16 Farewell Pastor Sharon and Pastor Sabine! In the ebb and flow of life and pastoring, we at Pioneer say "Good-bye and Godspeed" to two of our beloved pastors, Sharon Terrell and Sabine Vatel. One is retiring and the other is plunging into a new professional challenge as a hospital chaplain. And both will be dearly missed here at Pioneer by congregation and pastoral colleagues alike. Their spiritual and professional giftedness has blessed us all. Farewell picnic in Commons 1:30 PM